Theological Reading Group - 'We Have to Talk About Liberating Minds as Well as Liberating Society'

Everyone is welcome to join this bi-monthly Theological Reading Group. We will be coming together on a Sunday to illuminate scripture through a selection of texts that span a breadth of history and textual types. There will be a theme for each session and collection of texts. 

SUNDAY, 13 SEPTEMBER 2026

'We Have to Talk About Liberating Minds as Well as Liberating Society': Understanding/Misunderstanding of Faith

• Origen of Alexandria, First Principles

• James Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree

• Audre Lorde, The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism 

Chapter details to follow.

Download the Reading List Here

Text extracts will be made available here in due course (subject to copyright limits).

The group will be held at St Pancras, Euston Road while being held in partnership with St James's Piccadilly.

Each 2-hour session will remain grounded in scripture and discussion, stimulated by one pre-Reformation theological text, one modern theological text, and one non-theological text, typically a work of poetry. In each instance, pre-determined chapters will be scanned as a PDF and uploaded on the church websites in advance of the session. 

For each session, we will gather for coffee, tea, and biscuits at 13:00, with our discussion beginning at 13:15 and concluding no later than 15:00.

These sessions are an exciting opportunity to listen to and learn from each other respectfully. All are welcome, and each session will remain mindful of the Code of Conduct to ensure that we can discuss a broad range of works and themes in a way that is both stimulating and safe.